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is widespread to US government attempts to extend and consolidate imperial control of Latin America's resources on behalf of giant multinational corporations. One would never know that from the corporate-owned mainstream media.”Empire-speak : a primer in practical translation by Toni Solo, 04 July 2004.Energy crisis in Argentina, FTAA goes one game up by Víctor Ego Ducrot and Martín Waserman, 05 July 2004.What did Aeschylus write in "Daughters of Danaus"? by Toni Solo, 20 October 2004. “In the maquila paradise of Honduras, the UN Food and Agriculture organization reports that 15 people a day die of hunger. The FAO believes there is a serious prospect that the number will double in months to come. 44% of people there live on less than US$1 a day. But if one reads World Bank statistics, it is clear we are not meant to worry.”Cuba and Venezuela Face US and Colombia by James Petras, 22 March 2005.The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America's revolt by Naomi Klein, 05 November 2005. “Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters.”Free markets have failed a continent by Isabel Hilton, 12 July 2002. “Latin America is gagging on the prescriptions of the Bush family.” Bolivian Democracy and the US by Saul Landau, 16 December 2005. “The prospect of socialist peasant leader Evo Morales as Bolivia's next president disturbed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Charles Shapiro. … Shapiro combined buzz words with clichés. "The nature and scope of our cooperation with the next Bolivian government will depend on our shared interests: strengthening democracy, fostering economic development and combating illegal narcotics, along with that government's commitment to its international obligations." These trite but coded phrases tell the next Bolivian government: do Washington's bidding, or get your butt kicked.”Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington's grip by Noam Chomsky, 15 March 2006. “The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of independence in the global south.”Latin America's Shock Resistance by Naomi Klein, 08 November 2007.
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 ZNet Latin America Watch. ZNet Central America and the Caribbean Watch. The Narco News Bulletin “Reporting on the Drug War and Democracy in Latin America.” The Council on Hemispheric Affairs “Monitoring Political, Economic and Diplomatic Issues Affecting the Western Hemisphere.” School of the Americas watch. The SOA (now renamed to WHISC) is the US training camp for terrorists. Just the Facts:
A civilian's guide to U.S. defense and security assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. from the Center for International Policy (CIP).
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Beware saviours in hard hats by Naomi Klein, 01 October 2003. “The poor of Argentina are standing up to the foreign multinationals seeking to exploit their country's natural resources.”
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Argentina's Dapper State-Terrorist by Marta Gurvich, 19 August 1998. “"What is your favorite book," a journalist asked Gen. Rafael Videla, after he ascended to power in Argentina in 1976. "Book?" Videla replied. The journalist was perspiring. He didn't think it was a hard question to ask someone leading the nation. But suddenly the journalist felt that the question could jeopardize not only his career but his life. It was embarrassing that the new president could not come up with at least one title of one book. So the journalist tried to help out with suggestions: "The Bible perhaps? Martin Fierro (the most important book in Argentina's literature)?" Videla said something about his first-grade reading book, but ... he could not remember its title. [Diario Perfil, an article by Omar Bravo, July 10, 1998]” |
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Legerdemain and imperial puppetry: the gas referendum in Bolivia by Toni Solo, 16 July 2004.Bolivia's president resigns warning of civil war by Bill Van Auken, 09 June 2005.IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “After almost two decades of "reform" and structural adjustment, Bolivia is growing slowly, if at all. Bolivians are increasingly vulnerable and poor, while society in general is increasingly inequitable and unjust.”Interventions by William Blum, 2005. From Freeing the World to Death: essays on the american empire. Bolivia 2002.When two poor countries reclaimed oilfields, why did just one spark uproar? by George Monbiot, 16 May 2006.“The outcry over Bolivia's renationalisation and the silence over Chad's betrays the hypocrisy of the critics.”The Failure of Neoliberalism: Will Mexicans Ignore What Bolivians Learned? by Heather Williams, 30 June 2006.
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Bolivia's Gas Referendum by Forrest Hylton, 20 July 2004.
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Brazil| Internal Links | External Links |
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US Involvement in Torture.American-backed State Terrorism and Overthrow of Democracy in Brazil in America: Rogue State.
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Brazil 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of Death Squads by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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American-backed Overthrow of the Democratic Government of Chile in America: Rogue State.US Involvement in Torture.Chile by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Mining Glaciers: Water or Gold? by Michael Dickinson, 26 May 2006. “We await the decision of the Chilean President. Will she give permission for this legalized rape of her country by the gold-diggers?”Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire by Greg Grandin, 17 November 2006.
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The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand by Peter Kornbluh, November / December 1998. CIA Activities in Chile from the CIA, 18 September 2000. Confirmation that the CIA was involved in the 1973 coup to overthrow Allende.Chile 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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Three US planes down in two months by Maria Engqvist, 11 April 2003. “Earlier this week, a US mercenary pilot was killed when his State Department owned plane crashed in southern Colombia. It is suspected that rebel gunfire might have caused the crash. A total of three US planes have been lost in the last two weeks and 17 US soldiers have been killed in Colombia's civil war in the last few years.”US Casualties in Colombia's civil war by Alfredo Castro, 28 August 2002.Terrorists, their friends and the Bogota 3 by Toni Solo, 01 September 2003.Colombia: the war on terror as waged by outlaws by Toni Solo, 12 September 2003. An interview with Caitriona Ruane."Colombia-US Free Trade Treaty – far more than trade" by Toni Solo with Emilio Sardi, 01 March 2004.Colombia has seen one of history's largest land-grabs by Conor Foley, 07 January 2005.American Support for Colombian State Terrorism of the Colombian People in America: Rogue State.
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Scorched Earth – US Chemical Warfare in the Colombian Rainforest by Sean Donahue, May 2001.
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Costa Rica: Democratic Model in Jeopardy by Andrew Reding, Spring 1986.IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “The country now depends on imports to meet its basic food requirements, and the foreign debt that was supposed to be relieved through structural adjustment has now doubled.”Imperial Perspectives (Part X) by Jim Miles, 2006. “Much is made of the American lack of interest in empire, but its actions in Central and South America, the frequent incursions by the military in support of regimes friendly to U.S. ‘interests’ and in direct support of those interests, all testify otherwise.”
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Branding Cuba: La Vida Nike by Michael I. Niman, 14 May 2002.Cuba's Biological Weapons – The World Needs More of Them by Richard Levins, 28 February 2003.'Defending human rights worldwide' by Paul Harris, 19 April 2003. “...in April 2002, James Sabzali was convicted in Philadelphia of violating America's 1919 Trading with the Enemy Act. Sabzali is a Canadian citizen, born in Trinidad, and working in the United States...
He faces a possible 205 years in prison and $5 million dollars in fines... Sabzali's crime was selling water purification systems to Cuban hospitals.”Why the US fears Cuba by Seumas Milne, 31 July 2003. “Hostility to the Castro regime doesn't stem from its failings, but from its achievements.”Latin America in Crisis: Cuba's Self-Reliance in the Storm by Nelson P. Valdes, 07 November 2003.An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Cuba by Bernie Dwyer, 03 November 2003.Keeping things in perspective: Cuba and the question of international terrorism by Anya K. Landau and Wayne S. Smith, 06 November 2001. “For almost 40 years, we have isolated Cuba on the assumption that the tiny island is a center of terrorism in the hemisphere, and year after year we gain new evidence that it is the U.S. that has terrorized Cuba and not the other way around.” – Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1998. [115K]Strangling Cuba's Economy: Sanctions as a War of Attrition by Hope Bastian, 30 October 2004. “While the Treasury Department has 21 employees who track financial transactions with Cuba, it has only four employees responsible for tracking the funding of Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. Al Qaeda operatives may remain at-large, planning future terrorist attacks, but we can all rest assured that James Sabzali, a Canadian citizen who sold resins used to purify public drinking water in Cuba, has been slapped with a $10,000 fine and a 12-month conditional sentence for his dangerous actions.”American Subversion and State Terrorism of the Cuban People in America: Rogue State.Cuba 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.The Varela Project and the CIA by Thomas Riggins, 23 June 2004.U.S., Cuba and Democracy by William Blum, 21 March 2005.Cuban Dissidence and Terrorism by Salim Lamrani, 14 June 2005.The Two Americas by Marjorie Cohn, 03 September 2005. “Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died.”The blockade is an economic war applied at global level by Felipe Pérez Roque, 09 November 2005. “Speech by Felipe Pérez Roque, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Cuba, under Issue 18 on the agenda of the General Assembly titled The Need to End the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States of America.”Bay of Pigs by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Jailed for fighting terror by Olga Salanueva, 07 December 2005. “The hypocrisy of the US war on terrorism is revealed by its treatment of my husband.”Helping hand from Cuba by John Cherian, 17 December 2005. “Away from the glare of the international media, a team of Cuban doctors has been working among the quake-affected. The Cuban government offered its medical expertise to the governments of Pakistan and India immediately after the magnitude of the destruction caused by the quake was known. The Indian government did not even acknowledge the offer. Pakistan, where the scale of disaster was humongous, was quick to accept the offer. The first Cuban medical team was in Pakistan on October 14, six days after the earthquake.”Gays in Cuba by Leonardo Hechavarría and Marcel Hatch, October 2001. “from the Hollywood School of Falsification, a Movie Review of "Before Night Falls" (October 2001). Edited and web-posted by Walter Lippmann”Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455: A Glimpse into the Mind of a Terrorist by José Pertierra, 11 April 2006.Cuba doctors popular in quake-stricken Java by Tom Fawthrop, 18 August 2006. “Many of the international aid teams that descended on Indonesia after the 27 May earthquake in Java, have packed up and gone home. But a medical team from Cuba has proved so popular that locals have asked it to stay on for another six months.”Cuba's Pathbreaking Energy Policies by Nicholas von Hoffman, 22 August 2006.The Truth About the Embargo on Cuba by Ricardo Alarcon, 05 October 2006.The Story of How Cuba Helped to Free Africa by Isaac Saney, 04 November 2005.Why Cuba is a democracy and the US is not by Tim Anderson, 15 March 2007.Why low-income children excel in Cuban schools by Martin Carnoy, 26 April 2007.Childhood in Cuba by Luz Marina Fornieles Sánchez, January 2004.
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Timetable History of Cuba by J. A. Sierra, 2006.Cuba Solidarity Campaign. “The British campaign for the defence of Cuba and its peoples' right to self-determination and national sovereignty.”Free For Five “The purpose of this site is to inform about the current situation of five Cubans imprisoned for 7 years in the United States. Their only wrongdoing : they wanted to prevent terrorist attacks in preparation against the Republic of Cuba. Available for consultation in three languages (French, English and Spanish), the site makes it possible to sign on-line the petition to demand the immediate release of the Five. In the past few weeks about 5000 artists, journalists, writers and intellectuals of the whole world have already signed this petition. Updated daily the site also proposes articles of current events, videos, photos, testimonies as well as the history of this affair.”Free the Cuban Five The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Sexual-Transgender issues in Cuba.
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Game playing by "free trade" rules – results in from Indonesia and Dominican Republic by Toni Solo, 01 December 2003.American Subversion and Tyranny in the Dominican Republic in America: Rogue State.Dominican Republic by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.
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Dominican Republic 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. |
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Ecuador 1960 to 1963: A Textbook of Dirty Tricks by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.Ecuador: People drive out president by Duroyan Fertl, 27 April 2005.Amazon Pollution: Victims of 'Toxico' by Andrew Gumbel, 27 April 2005. “Environmentalists estimate around 2.5 million acres of rainforest were compromised or destroyed in Texaco's search for oil in Ecuador. It is a disaster that has left the jungle ravaged and its people dying of cancer.”
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US Involvement in Torture.American Terrorism of the El Salvadoran People in America: Rogue State.The crucifixion of El Salvador by Noam Chomsky, 1993.El Salvador by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Interventions by William Blum, 2005. From Freeing the World to Death: essays on the american empire. El Salvador 2004.The Capital of Salvadoran Memory by Jeffrey L. Gould, 23 December 2006.A Review of America's 'Investment' in El Salvador by Olga Bonfiglio, 16 November 2007.
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Death Squads in El Salvador: A Pattern of U.S. Complicity by David Kirsch, Summer 1990.
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American Subversion and Invasion of tiny Grenada in America: Rogue State.Grenada by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.The Grenada 17 by Rich Gibson, 05 June 2004. “The invasion of Grenada, more than 20 years ago, presaged many of the events that blowback on the US today: unilateral warfare, official deceit about the motives for war, a massive military moving against an imagined foe, stifling the press, leaders proclaiming their guidance from God, denials of human and civil rights, systematic torture and subsequent cover-ups-and a hero who refused to go along. Many of the players in the Bush administration who promise perpetual war today cut their teeth on the invasion of Grenada. It is more than worthwhile to review the events that lead to the upcoming trial.”
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Grenada 1979-1984: Lying – one of the few growth industries in Washington by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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American-backed Genocide of the Guatemalan People in America: Rogue State.US Involvement in Torture.Making Guatemala a killing field by Noam Chomsky, 1993.History of Guatemala's 'Death Squads' by Robert Parry, 11 January 2005.Guatemala by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Guatemala 1962-1980s: A less publicized "final solution" by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.Imperial Perspectives (Part X) by Jim Miles, 2006. “Much is made of the American lack of interest in empire, but its actions in Central and South America, the frequent incursions by the military in support of regimes friendly to U.S. ‘interests’ and in direct support of those interests, all testify otherwise.”'They keep on killing and killing' by Jo Tuckman, 20 April 2007. “Thousands of women and girls have been murdered in Guatemala - and the toll is still rising. Yet the killers are rarely brought to justice. Jo Tuckman on a human rights emergency.”
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Bringing 'democracy' to the world.6/7: the massacre of the poor that the world ignored by Naomi Klein, 18 July 2005. “The US cannot accept that the Haitian president it ousted still has support.”Haiti is no stranger to the war crimes of the former colonial powers which now make up NATO by Maude LeBlanc, 16 February 2001Interview with the US lawyer representing the government of Haiti 25 February 2004. “"The question is," says Kurzban. "Will the international community stand by and allow a democracy in this hemisphere to be terminated by a brutal military coup of persons who have a very, very sordid history of gross violations of human rights?"”Haiti as Target Practice – How the US Press Missed the Story by Heather Williams, 01 March 2004.Why they had to crush Aristide by Peter Hallward, 02 March 2004. “Haiti's elected leader was regarded as a threat by France and the US.”Haiti 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest? by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.The US in Haiti: How to Get Rich on 11 Cents an Hour by Eric Verhoogen, January 1996. “And the rosy rhetoric of U.S. intervention obscures a darker, more pernicious fact about the U.S. presence in Haiti: that many of the companies profiting from the abuse and exploitation of Haitian workers are among the largest and most successful U.S. corporations: Disney, Wal-Mart, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Sears, Hanes/Sara Lee and Kellwood, to name a few.”Operation Enduring Sweatshop – Another Bush Brings Hell to Haiti by Chris Floyd, 10 March 2004. “This week, the Bush administration added another violent "regime change" notch to its gunbelt, toppling the democratically elected president of Haiti and replacing him with an unelected gang of convicted killers, death squad leaders, militarists, narcoterrorists, CIA operatives, hereditary elitists and corporate predators – a bit like Team Bush itself, in other words.”The hapless and the wretched of the earth by John Maxwell, 26 September 2004.A Clandestine Interview from Haiti: Resistance in the Slums of Port au Prince from The Black Commentator, 14 October 2004.From Haiti to Iraq and Beyond from The Black Commentator, 10 February 2005.American-supported State Terrorism of the Haitian People in America: Rogue State.American Support of Dictatorship in Haiti in America: Rogue State.Haiti by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.America's Historic Debt to Haiti by Robert Parry, 10 February 2006. “what few Americans know is that they owe this Caribbean nation a profound historical debt. Indeed, perhaps no nation has done more for the United States than Haiti and been treated as badly in return.”Haiti election gets mixed report card by Jim Loney, 09 February 2006.Haiti is 'fixed' by Kevin Skerrett, 01 December 2005.Solidaridad? Chávez in Haiti by Mario Joseph and Brian Concannon, 10 April 2007.
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Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.Haiti Justice Blog.The Haiti Support Group (HSG) is an association of individuals who support the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. Haiti Action Committee. “The Haiti Action Committee is a Bay Area-based network of activists who have supported the Haitian struggle for democracy since 1991.” Bringing Hell To Haiti by David Edwards, 03 March 2004. (PDF).
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The "free trade" history eraser – Honduras, maquilas and popular protest in Latin America by Toni Solo, 19 November 2003.Imperial Perspectives (Part X) by Jim Miles, 2006. “Much is made of the American lack of interest in empire, but its actions in Central and South America, the frequent incursions by the military in support of regimes friendly to U.S. ‘interests’ and in direct support of those interests, all testify otherwise.”Negroponte's New Gig by Saul Cohen, 12 January 2007.
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 In From the Cold War: John Negroponte by Terry J. Allen, 02 April 2001. “John Negroponte was in charge of the U.S. Embassy when, according to a 1995 four-part series in the Baltimore Sun, hundreds of Hondurans were kidnapped, tortured and killed by Battalion 316, a secret army intelligence unit trained and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency.”Torture was taught by CIA: Declassified manual details the methods used in Honduras by Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson and Mark Matthews, 27 January 1997.
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Struggle for everyday survival that forces women to risk the dangers of the drug run by Audrey Gillan, 01 October 2003. “In the first part of our major investigation of women cocaine mules from the Caribbean, we exposed the staggering impact on the already overcrowded British prison system. Today Audrey Gillan travels to Kingston, Jamaica, to uncover the terrible price paid by the women's families and the desperation.”Bursting point: the drugs mules filling up UK prisons by Audrey Gillan, 30 September 2003.Their homophobia is our fault by Decca Aitkenhead, 05 January 2005. “Real liberals would realise it is meaningless to vilify Jamaicans for attitudes that Britain created.”IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “Increased unemployment, sweeping corruption, higher illiteracy, increased violence, prohibitive food costs, dilapidated hospitals, increased disparity between rich and poor characterize only part of the present day economic crisis.”
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 Life and Debt
“a documentary by Stephanie Black, with a commentary written by Jamaica Kincaid, looks at the effect of the International Monetary Fund on the economy of Jamaica. The result, she argues, has been the destruction of Jamaican industry and agriculture, the end of Jamaica as a self-sufficient economic entity, and its conversion into a market for North American goods and a source of underpaid labor.” –
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
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IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “By early 1995 the Mexican economy was plunged into its worst economic depression in 60 years, the effects of which are still being felt by the large majority of Mexicans – despite claims of recovery by the IMF and U.S. and Mexican policymakers.”The Failure of Neoliberalism: Will Mexicans Ignore What Bolivians Learned? by Heather Williams, 30 June 2006.'People power' is a global brand owned by America by Mark Almond, 15 August 2006. “The US and the western media back protests over controversial elections when it suits them, but are silent over those in Mexico.”Halliburton Wrecks Mexico by John Ross, 18 November 2006.
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Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War by John Mason Hart. The Last Days of Mexican Corn by John Ross, 21 November 2007.
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Bringing 'democracy' to the world.The CIA in Nicaragua from Wake Up.Teaching Nicaragua a lesson by Noam Chomsky, 1993.Neo-liberal Nicaragua: Neo Banana Republic by Toni Solo, 29 July 2003.CAFTA thumbscrews – the nuts and bolts of "free trade" extortion by Toni Solo, 14 October 2003. The effects of the Central American Free Trade Agreement."Poor people can't be engineers" – free market corruption, neo-liberal pretexts by Toni Solo, 22 February 2004.American Terrorism of the Nicaraguan People in America: Rogue State.US Involvement in Torture.Nemagon Workers Are Dying: Urgent Press Release by Kristin McKay, 28 March 2005. “Nemagon is a virulent pesticide used in banana and sugar cane plantations in Central America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines.”Nicaragua by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Swindling the Sick by Ben Beachy, 30 January 2006. “For about a decade, Nicaragua's health care budget has been steadily declining under IMF structural adjustment programs that impose a cap on social spending . From 1996 to 2003, amidst such neoliberal encroachments, Nicaragua saw its supply of doctors per 10,000 people decrease from 6 to 3.8. Insufficient health funds have not only thwarted doctor availability, but provision of basic medical supplies, repairs for dilapidated hospitals, subsidies for essential medicines, and other prerequisites for functional health care.”Interventions by William Blum, 2005. From Freeing the World to Death: essays on the american empire. Nicaragua 2001.Imperial Perspectives (Part X) by Jim Miles, 2006. “Much is made of the American lack of interest in empire, but its actions in Central and South America, the frequent incursions by the military in support of regimes friendly to U.S. ‘interests’ and in direct support of those interests, all testify otherwise.”Nicaragua braced for the return of the ugly Americans by Andrew Buncombe, 06 September 2006.Rep. Burton in Nicaragua: Speaking Loudly and Carrying the Same Big Stick by Brynne Keith-Jennings, 05 October 2006.Targeting Nicaraguans' Stomachs by Ben Beachy, 31 October 2006.
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 What Everyone Should Know About Nicaragua from the CEPR (Center for Economic and Political Research), November 6, 2001. “While the Sandinistas were rebuilding the war-ravaged economy – it quickly reached the highest growth rate of Central America – Washington was planning violence. While the Sandinistas built health clinics and waged literacy campaigns that won international acclaim and awards from the United Nations, the Reagan Administration built an army to overthrow the new government.
The "Contras" as they were called – from the Spanish for counter-revolutionaries – were recruited, armed, trained, and paid by the CIA. They waged war not so much against the Nicaraguan army as against "soft targets:" teachers, health care workers, elected officials (a CIA-prepared manual actually advocated their assassination). They blew up bridges and health clinics, and with help from a US trade embargo beginning in 1985, destroyed the economy of Nicaragua.” The Contras and Cocaine. “How the CIA helped the Contras smuggle cocaine to the US.” Rumsfeld in Nicaragua by Toni Solo, 17 November 2004.Israel, Nicaragua and the Contras from the Third World Traveler.Nicaragua 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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American Invasion of Panama in America: Rogue State.The invasion of Panama by Noam Chomsky, 1993.Panama by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994. From the book The CIAs Greatest Hits.Imperial Perspectives (Part X) by Jim Miles, 2006. “Much is made of the American lack of interest in empire, but its actions in Central and South America, the frequent incursions by the military in support of regimes friendly to U.S. ‘interests’ and in direct support of those interests, all testify otherwise.”
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Standing Up to Exploitation and Injustice: The Cajamarca Protest by Lori Berenson, 28 September 2004.
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US Involvement in Torture.Uruguay 1964-1970: Torture – as American as apple pie by William Blum, 2003. From the book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
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Is U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela Counter-Productive? by Mark Weisbrot, 21 September 2003.Mis-reporting Venezuela : Hugo Chavez as processed by the “Independent” newspaper by Toni Solo, 22 March 2004.Venezuela: the Gang's All Here by Alexander Cockburn, 26 June 2004. “You can set your watch by it. The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending the August 15 recall referendum of President Hugo Chávez. ”Why the Elites Hate Hugo Chavez: Buzz Words and Venezuela by Saul Landau, 02 July 2004.After the Venezuela Referendum by Toni Solo, 18 August 2004.Danilo Anderson and Condoleezza Rice by Toni Solo, 27 November 2004.Move This Building to Another Country! by Mike Whitney, 19 September 2005. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's remarks at the UN.Evangelicals in Venezuela: Robertson Only the Latest Controversy In a Long and Bizarre History from COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs), 19 September 2005. “Vice President Rangel leads a campaign for anti-evangelical vigilance as the Robertson affair reminds him and the nation of the suspect activities of the New Tribes Mission decades ago.”Democracy under threat by Richard Gott, 06 December 2005. “Chávez will only gain from the US-backed opposition's ploy to undermine elections.”Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors by Karen Talbot, 2002.Interventions by William Blum, 2005. From Freeing the World to Death: essays on the american empire. Venezuela 2002.US Intervention in Venezuela by Medea Benjamin, 04 March 2006. “It never ceases to amaze me, in the middle of the massive failure of the war on Iraq, that the Bush administration still has time to mess up our relations with other countries. Yet it seems like that's exactly what they're doing with our neighbor Venezuela.”Chávez is a threat because he offers the alternative of a decent society by John Pilger, 13 May 2006. “Venezuela's president is using oil revenues to liberate the poor - no wonder his enemies want to overthrow him.”Not a difficult choice at all by Ken Livingstone, 15 May 2006.“Chávez and Venezuela deserve the support of all who believe in social justice and democracy.”Bombing Venezuela's Indians by Nikolas Kozloff, 08 February 2007.Hugo Chavez's Social Democratic Agenda by Stephen Lendman, 23 February 2007. “In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez supports free expression, social democracy, and using state revenues to insure and improve both. In the US, both parties support wealth and power, are jointly running a criminal enterprise masquerading as legitimately elected government, scorn the law and constitutional freedoms, are heading the country toward despotism in a national security police state conducting wars without end, and want to rule the world including its oil-rich parts inside Venezuela's borders.”Venezuela: Not What You Think by Robin Hahnel, 01 December 2007.
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VHeadline.com “is fully supportive of the Venezuelan people in their efforts to secure and reassure their national sovereignty against all foreign impositions.” The CIA and the Venezuela Coup by William Blum, 14 April 2002.Venezuela FOIA. A site for the book El Código Chávez (The Chavez Code) with information on US interference in Venezuela.Venezuelanalysis.com. “Ongoing news and analysis from Venezuela.” The Venezuela Information Office. “The VIO was established to educate the public about contemporary Venezuela. The country is on the cutting edge of some of the most dramatic and important issues of our time.”
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